Mental Illness
As ER waits stretch for days, Mass. turns to in-home care for children's mental health
Thirty-seven hospitals in Massachusetts have started offering intensive home-based mental health care to the families of children stuck in emergency rooms. Counseling at home instead of admission to a psychiatric...
Judy Collins On Suicide, Mental Illness And The Story Her Voice Is Telling
Singer Judy Collins wins an award from McLean Hospital for speaking out about mental health and addiction, including her own alcoholism and depression and her son's 1992 suicide.
Study: Despite Weight Gain, Quitting Smoking Improves Heart Health For Mentally Ill After A Year
That's the good news part of the research. The bad news is that if they continue to gain weight, they may lose ground and still end up with heart disease...
Commentary: Getting Off Psych Meds Was The 'Hardest Thing' She'd Ever Done
"Every patient is unique, and there is still so much we don’t know," writes Dr. Annie Brewster, after relaying a woman's story navigating the mental health system.
Landmark Gene Discovery Cracks Open 'Black Box' Of Schizophrenia
Researchers based at the Broad Institute in Cambridge have pinpointed the gene that is the biggest risk factor for schizophrenia discovered so far, and figured out how it does its...
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Ted Stanley, Who Donated Hundreds Of Millions For Mental Illness Research, Dies
Stanley's 2014 donation of $650 million to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was billed as "the largest ever donation toward psychiatric research."
How Trauma Brings Fear, Yes, But Also More Nuanced Reactions
Adaptations such as resilience, the ability to “bounce back” after stressful life events, and post-traumatic growth, the range of positive psychological changes that occur following trauma, have both been shown...
Is It Possible To Prevent Suicide? 2 Psychiatrists Map Out The Ways
We don’t treat suicide itself. We treat the causes of suicide.
Stressed-Out Undergrads And The College Mental Health Crisis
The bottom line: undergrads are struggling, many of them suffering from mild, moderate and severe mental illness. And colleges are scrambling to figure out ways to cope, from setting up...
Dr. Mark Vonnegut: On Creativity, Being 'Crazy' And Getting Help
The reason the arts and craziness run in families is because crazy people who can sing and dance and paint pictures and write well do a much better job of...
The Upside Of Admission To The Psych Unit: A Doctor's Inside View
Images from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” fill people’s imaginations, as do fantasies of the “shock therapy” room, which many incorrectly think is a place of punishment and not...
Predicting The Next Mental Health Crisis: Sometimes We Just Can't Know
For all of modern medicine, predictions are surprisingly fraught with difficulty. Doctors are wrong all the time. That’s a fact.
Medicated (And Unmedicated) Women Are Talking
A crucial step in decreasing the stigma surrounding mental illness is talking about it openly. And it seems readers want to talk.
Anorexia: Potentially Deadly, Treatable And Still Not Always Covered By Insurance
Despite the awfulness of Anorexia and its potentially fatal outcomes, despite a death rate more than 12 times higher than any other psychiatric syndrome, insurers still try to balk at...
'Tis The Season Of Stress: 10 Tips To Help You Cope
A sure formula for depression, demoralization and upset is setting standards too high for the holidays. No dinner is perfect; something breaks; someone triggers an old family fight. This is...
Persistent Stigma, Skepticism About Mental Illness Causes Real Harm
There's even evidence that doctors themselves don't believe this type of pain is real -- and they sometimes wonder whether depression results from a moral failing.
Inspired By Family Illness, Philanthropist Gives $650 Million For Psychiatric Research
Researchers at the Broad Institute in Cambridge plan to use Ted Stanley's donation to catalog all the genetic variations that contribute to severe psychiatric disorders.
5 Ways The Brain Stymies Scientists And 5 New Tools To Crack It
A leading authority on neuroscience, Dr. Steven Hyman, discusses why understanding the brain is so darned hard, and how new scientific tools are nonetheless making it possible.
Empathy Lessons: Training Police To Understand People With Mental Illness
To help them handle the growing proportion of police work that involves mental health crises, some Massachusetts officers take advanced training that teaches them to better understand -- and empathize...
The OCD In Us All: Study Finds Almost Everyone Has Intrusive Thoughts
A study finds that virtually everyone has unwanted, intrusive thoughts typical of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The difference tends to be how frequently they occur and how much they upset the person...